GRP submits chargesheet in murder case of college teacher inside Mumbai local train

Mumbai: The Government Railway Police (GRP) on Wednesday submitted a 250-page chargesheet in connection with the murder case of a college teacher inside a local train at Malad station on January 24. GRP had arrested a co-passenger, Omkar Shinde, for allegedly stabbing to death Alok Kumar Singh, 33, a junior college faculty member of Narsee Monjee College in Vile Parle, with a small pair of tongs following an argument over alighting from the train.The chargesheet, which was submitted before the Borivali court, has statements of 63 people, including eyewitnesses. One of the witnesses is Singh's colleague, Sudhir Kumar Trivedi, who had been travelling with him on the day of the incident. Another witness is station master, Mohammad Nasarullah Ansari who had attended to an injured Singh on the platform."We have attached video evidence in the form of CCTV footage which has captured Shinde exiting the compartment before running across a foot overbridge and leaving the station," said a police officer. The pair of tongs used for the murder was also recovered. Police had sent the weapon to the state forensic lab for analysing the blood found on it. Reports from the lab are awaited.The chargesheet also contains the post-mortem report, which details how the tongs pierced the intestines and major blood vessels and the severe blood loss suffered by Singh.Shinde is presently in judicial custody. He had then told investigators that he and Singh had been bickering over alighting at Malad station, when someone from the crowd pulled his hair and he presumed it to be Singh and attacked him.Get real-time updates and result insights on the CBSE 12 Result 2026.